Clutter Video Tip: Clear Mental Clutter by Planning to Plan

http://www.clutterdiet.com Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. Do you feel like your week is one of those nightmare halls that keep stretching and stretching out in front of you while you are stuck running in place? Then just when you get to the weekend time races right by you. While you can't control time, you can control how you spend it. Today Lorie Marrero will show you how to clear out your mental clutter. Having a plan will help you spend your time efficiently, effectively and productively.These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. You can search Twitter for #ClutterVideoTip also to find comments on our organizing tips. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement.

Quote and Links:
"Make each day your masterpiece."
-- John Wooden

http://tinyurl.com/sundayplanning
http://donate.goodwill.org
http://www.clutterdiet.com/learnmore

Transcript:
Hi, I'm Lorie Marrero and today's Clutter Video Tip is about mental clutter. All those thoughts racing around in your head, and we can fix that with some planning. You know, one of my favorite quotes if from the late coach John Wooden: "Make each day your masterpiece." And the way to do that is by starting out each day knowing what your priorities are. I believe in planning your day as you sit down with your to-do list in the morning, and I also believe in planning your week. I think Sundays are a great day to plan your week with your family and we have a whole [POP] video just about doing that that you can see the link for here, and I believe in planning your work on Fridays. Fridays are a little slower day for most people, and it's a day to regroup from the week you just finished, and a day to plan ahead for the week to come. So you can sit down, you can make lists, you can set your priorities, you can make decisions, and the way to get rid of that mental clutter is through decision making, because that's ultimately what all clutter is, it's delayed decisions and delayed actions. So planning [POP] will save you tons of time and reduce your stress tremendously. Author Brian Tracy says that every minute you spend in planning saves you 10, so it's a wonderful return on your investment.

Now I want to say a word about rigidity -- when people hear the word "planning," and they think about planning their day, they think that maybe it sounds a little bit rigid, like you're going to be taking off everything on a little schedule, and I want to assure you that I'm really not like that, and it's not really how I want anybody to live. The whole beauty of planning is to have your highest priority things [POP] come in first, in order, so that when inevitable surprises come up, or when spontaneous ideas occur, you can flow with those and do what fun things life has to offer.

So if you need help doing some planning [POP], I highly recommend having an accountability partner. I have had an accountability partner of my own for over 10 years, and now we have another partner who's joined us for our weekly calls and she's been with us three or four years now. So it's something that you can do to answer to someone else, to have you held accountable for actually doing that planning [POP] and doing what you say that you're going to do.

Members of our program have accountability partners in our Member Message Boards, where our team of professional organizers will be your accountability partners if you want us to. And you can find out more about our program at clutterdiet.com/learnmore.

See you next time, and may you always be happy and grateful for having more than enough.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• clutter
• declutter
• clutter free
• clutterdiet
• organization
• home organization
• professional organizers
• organizing tips
• life-hacks
• lifehacks
• organized
• stress
• overwhelmed
• clean
• storage
• housework
• organizing clutter
• cluttered
• declutter your life
• organizing expert
• declutter expert
• home organizer
• lorie marrero
• lori marrero
• clutter tip
• clutter tips
• cluttertip
• cluttertips
• phantupular

[Cheryl64014]

Lori, when I clicked on the tinyurl that was provided above for "sunday planning", I received an error message that says - or words to the effect of - the content I am looking for is not there, and that whoever provided that tiny url did so in violation of terms.

I wanted you to know so that you could look into that. In the meantime, I'm going to go to your site to see if the "sunday planning" information is there.

Thank you for everything you do for us.

[clutterdiet]

@Cheryl64014 Sorry about that! There was a space between "sunday" and "planning" in the url listed in the description. It is fixed above (YouTube won't let me insert a working hyperlink here). Thank you for letting me know!

[MissVelvetElle]

Very good info ~ Thank you

[Geordieange17]

Thanks Lorie, great work! I was chatting about a similar idea the other day.....about how having a menu plan for the week helps us to be prepared, but if we want to be spontaneous and switch the meals around a bit, that's OK and it doesn't have to be so rigid. Nice idea to think that having a plan helps us to be more spontaneous :-)

[Cheryl64014]

Ahh, yes, now it's working! Thank you, Lori!

[lchutny]

Lorie, Clearing that mental clutter is great, I assume you've read 'Getting things Done' by David Allen. Great tools there to clear the mental clutter!